SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm

[Christopher]

MTRON claims a 32GB drive can write 50GB a day for 140 years, so assume 50GB a day for 70 years with the 16GB 7000.

That would equal 1,277,500GB, which is realistic if the NAND is rated for 100,000PE cycles. If the MTRON could maintain 3500GB per day in ASU, I could hit 1,277,500GB in only 365 days. 41MB/s avg would be 3500GB a day so that seems reasonable.

Of course, if the NAND is 200,000PE rated and the drive has decent WA/WL, then all bets are off. It could be more like 3 years. I only ran a couple of loops with no static data and 3GB min free space, so I can't say whether the lack of TRIM is going to wreck avg speed or not. But it could be feasible to test the drive in a reasonable time span -- maybe. The lack of SMART data is irritating (ONE attribute? Why bother?), and I don't even know how the one attribute works.

The 3.5" chassis is quite nice. It weighs almost as much as a single platter 3.5" HDD.